Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

What a blessing it is to love books.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.